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What everyone is ignoring is the elephant. Times have changed, and Microsoft is moving, if not to the sidelines, then certainly off stage-center. It's all just part of a natural life cycle, and that's what any new CEO is really going to have to contend with -- gently lowering the expectations of employees, shareholders, and the stock market to more realistic expectations that we would expect from a "mature", perhaps "over-the-hill" company.
Heh. Did I just call Microsoft over-the-hill? Yep!
Marc
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It just became the rock star with the introduction of .NET 1.0 ten years ago, fading so quickly?
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If you’re looking to land a new job in 2014, you have to stand out from the crowd. Your resumé should pop. How do you achieve that? Stop using buzzwords — words that are overused to the point where they mean absolutely nothing. I was responsible for organizational-driven strategic creativity
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The trending partnership of optimizational keyword components to parallel one's achievements brings understanding to the developing senses of management seeking prospective solvers.
All words in the sentence above taken from the CodeProject.com home page at the writing of this message.
That is, ya don't hafta go far for new buzzwords to put into yer resume!
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Seattle-based Code Fellows is asking experienced devs to explain how they originally learned to code in an effort to help those interested in the field. One semi-colon at a time
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Listings pages at the back of computer magazines - does anything like that exist now?
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Oh wow, I had forgotten about those.
I remember typing in a basic program for measuring race times for a sports carnival at school. I never did find out if it worked. Come to think of it, my QA skills may not have improved much 
I am not sure what the modern equivalent would be, and I'm pretty glad I can just copy and paste now.
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I agree: I loved those.
Sadly, I think the modern equivalent is "Need codez plz"
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TTFN - Kent
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: does anything like that exist now?
Sure, it's called Stack Overflow.
But why look further than CP, when there are thousands of articles, and ever since the nifty feature to peruse article code online, I no longer need to download the zip file!
Marc
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I think there was something about actually having to type in the code (No copy-paste) that made the knowledge stick (or maybe I was just younger and had more brain cells).
I think the nearest now would actually be PluralSight...
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In a paper pre-published on arXiv, a pair of actual physics professors detail their exhaustive efforts to canvass the Internet for evidence of time travelers. Drs. Robert J. Nemiroff and Teresa Wilson of Michigan Technological University had me at the first line of the abstract: "Time travel has captured the public imagination for much of the past century, but little has been done to actually search for time travelers." But of course, that's just the way they want you to think
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Why would time travelers visit now? Isn't it reasonable to assume that they visit periods before now? Mightn't many of the hooligans at Woodstock have been time travelers? If I got a time machine that's when I'd go.
Edit: Come to think of it... time travelers now have that document as a guide of what not to do.
modified 5-Jan-14 18:26pm.
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With all the people that claim to have attended Woodstock, I think more than a few of them probably were time travellers.
PIEBALDconsult wrote: Come to think of it... time travelers now have that document as a guide of what not to do.
Dun dun DUN!! I think you might be on to something there.
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The thing about being a time traveller - every time you are discovered you can go back in time and hide (have hidden?) better....
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Hey, why don't they use Google for finding my proof of time travel posted in the Lounge tomorrow (I'll travel back three years to make it appear in the correct place): Proof of Time Travel[^]
And that happened to me two more times since then: on the motorway near Erlangen some two years ago, and just last December somewhere in Malaysia. Time travel is quite common! Sadly, I find out only later on when I analyse the track records of my GPS device.
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An alleged future successor to Windows received renewed attention over the past week, as speculation whirled that Microsoft might open-source the new programming language associated with it. If "the future is abstract, parallel, and managed", I'm staying here
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Kent Sharkey wrote: the future is abstract, parallel, and managed
Sounds like my ex-wife.
Marc
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Kent Sharkey wrote: M#
At first, I thought of a new step in the development of MUMPS which somewhen became OpenM...
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Malicious ads served through Yahoo's ad network delivered malware to thousands of site visitors, according to researchers at Fox-IT, but Yahoo subsequently blocked the attack. Ya-hoo.
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I don't know if this is a good candidate for The Insider, or not: [^].
Appears to be based on tweets, so who knows what the sampling bias is.
cheers, Bill
“There are obvious things, and there are many obvious things no one tried, because no one needed to try them.” Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov, January 1, 2014
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The lawsuit claims that Facebook scans messages between users labeled "private" for links and other information that can be sold to advertisers, marketers and data aggregators.
What a bunch of Facebook stalkers.
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A lot creepier is that Facebook also polls the content of what users put in the textboxes.
So if you've typed in a comment, wall-post or status update and then decided not to post it, they still know about it.
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0bx wrote: So if you've typed in a comment, wall-post or status update and then decided not to post it, they still know about it.
Really?  I could have fun with that. 
Marc
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CORS, the cross-origin resource sharing specification published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), allows Web developers to incorporate client-side data into their apps.
"Don't take other people's data, unless you take it the way we tell you to take it."
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